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Celebrating Cities on latitude 60°N German Romantics
his year’s City of Each half of the prog- at Longborough
T London Festival spot-
lighted music from the
ramme contained a piece
for trombone and strings Festival Opera
cities on latitude 60°N; which Mr Lindberg con-
Kirkwall, Oslo, Stock- ducted from the trom- n what is proving a rewarding adjunct to its
holm, Helsinki, Tallinn
and St Petersburg, and as
bone, and this somewhat
curbed his exuberance
I fully-staged productions, Longborough
Festival Opera now includes in its summer
Sweden assumed the and made his conduct- seasons programmes which allow it to explore
presidency of the Euro- ing a lot clearer and aspects of the operatic repertoire in concert-
pean Union on 1 July, more comfortable to performance. This such presentation on June
the Festival did not miss watch. In the first half, 12 revolved around two persecuted tenors, in
the opportunity to cele- the trombone piece was the roles of Florestan (Beethoven’s Fidelio) and
brate the occasion on a special adaptation of Siegmund (Wagner’s Die Walküre), beefy,
that date with its only Arvo Part’s Fratres for heroic roles which make huge demands upon
concert this year in the trombone and strings, the singer.
Great Hall of the Guild- and in the second half, It’s just as well that we only heard excerpts
hall. It was held in the Mr Linberg made every- from these two operas, the Beethoven in bits
presence of the Crown one remember the final and pieces, the Wagner restricted to Act One,
Prince of Sweden, a plethora of ambassadors, piece of the concert – his own 25-minute perfectly self-standing in itself, since the
clerics, politicians and dignitaries from the composition, Kundraan. The programme ann- chosen soloist was obviously uncomfortable in
Nordic world, with music from Nordic ounces it as the first UK performance, but does pacing himself throughout the task.
composers played by the Nordic Chamber Orch- not offer who Kundraan is or was, or what it The young New Zealand tenor Andrew
estra with a Swedish conductor. means. Is it a figment of Lindberg’s imagination, Sritheran looks good on stage and engages
The Norwegian contribution to the concert for throughout it certainly ran riot? To the well both with his fellow-performers and the
was Grieg’s four-movement Holberg Suite, in strings, he added his own shouted text, of audience. But almost immediately from his
which some of the tempos were not secured until mildly shocking nature, a